Once Upon a Time in The ’70s will shortly celebrate a significant milestone. You can discover exactly why Paul and I will be sharing a beer or two, by answering the following twenty-five quiz questions on the music of our favourite decade.

I’ll say, the genres covered are quite varied, but clues, and indeed on occasion the answer, can be found in the image mosaic.

The questions are ordered so that when rearranged, the first letter of each answer (ignoring ‘The’ should it occur) becomes one of the six words that comprise the reason for celebration.

I’m sure everyone will twig as to the final outcome, but answers will be added to the bottom of the post in a few days time.

(Here’s a completely random, short ’70s playlist, which bears absolutely no reference whatsoever to the quiz. It’s posted just to divert and confuse your concentration. 😉)

OKAY. EYES DOWN, HERE WE GO!

1. Their 1978 hit. ‘Teenage Kicks’ was reputedly John Peel’s favourite single.
2. Thumbs in your belt-loops, lads. Let’s show the girls our moves to this Mud classic.
3. The surname of the bloke whose shoe fell apart, had four hundred children and a crap in the field!
4. Nothing to do with a popular ’70s soft drink, in 1976 they confided ‘You to Me are Everything.’
5. The LP that provided The Who with their ‘5:15’ hit single.
6. They recorded the original (and infinitely better) version of ‘God Gave Rock and Roll to You.’
7. This song is more commonly known by the word that appears in parenthesis at the end of the full title to Barbara Streisand’s movie soundtrack hit of 1977.
   
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8. Another family band that was called ‘Partridge’ … nor indeed ‘Family.’
9. A famous single taken from David Bowie’s 1975 ‘Young Americans’ LP.
   
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10. They’d been through the desert on a horse with no name.
    
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11. He wore a white Pierrot clown costume and makeup for his breakthrough single in 1973, singing about how the show must go on.
12. Elvis Costello’s 1979 army.
13. In 1976, Cliff Richard sang about these nights being the longest.
14. Yet another band with a family connection who cooked up a couple of big hits in 1973 with ‘You Can Do Magic,’ and again in 1974 with ‘Walkin’ Miracle.’
15. A Disco classic from 1979 celebrating empowerment over grief / abandonment.
16. They wanted to teach the world to sing a never ending song of love in 1971.
17. Another band of brothers, these were responsible for a Summer Breeze and a Harvest for the World.
    
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18. The real surname of ‘Dancin’ (on a Saturday Night’ singer, Barry Blue.
19. If I say ‘Gilbert’ you’ll instinctively say ….
20. Sweet’s only UK #1 hit.
21. The country Vicky Leandros represented when she won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1972 with ‘Come What May.’
    
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22. I had to do it, and it’s a pure ‘gimmee,’ I know. But, The Alex Harvey Band was simply …
23. David Essex wanted you to do this in 1975.
24. A massive disco hit for Donna Summer in 1977.
25. Irish rockers who had the debut hit in 1973, but then the boys weren’t back in town until 1976.

(Post by Colin ‘Jackie’ Jackson from Glasgow – October 2026)